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An important message from a PRACTICING Jehovah's witness
by Sparks in
1. jw
2. friends
hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!

i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.

i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.
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I'm thinking about going back
by Corboy101 in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been out for 22 years.i was raised as a jehovahs witness.

i was baptized in 1986 but soon after left the religion.

theres a whole lot to the reasons why i left, but i left.
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AVOIDING A SHEPHERDING CALL: Suggestions pls
by grumblecakes in
1. jw
2. friends
yup got a voice mail bright and early this morning "grumblecakes, we would like to schedule a shepherding call".. how do i get outta this?.

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thanks!!
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This is well worth remembering
by The Quiet One in
1. social
2. current
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/08/religion.world?view=desktop.
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The Bizarre Free Will
by John_Mann in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
two years before i left jw world i came to a strange conclusion about the jw cosmology and the free will doctrine.. basically i came to conclusion that satan is right about the universal sovereign issue.

and i came with that just only using jws premises, no outside apostasy.

i just told to my sister what she thought about it, and she said to me: dont tell anyone about this!.
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7/15 WT- Insane, Far Fetched, Narcissistic "New Light " about the FDS
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
i know this article has been discussed, re-hashed upside down in past threads.

but there were at least 2 points i discovered in here that i felt were pertinent and important to bring out concerning the total control and narcissistic tendencies that these wt leaders possess on the governing body, i.e.

alleged " faithful slave " .
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How the new light on the domestics may backfire on the Watchtower Society
by yadda yadda 2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the new light is a bit of give and take by the gb.

they have taken upon themselves the title of the faithful and discreet slave, in exchange for pushing the 'appointment over all of his [christ's] belongings' out into the future, and also in exchange for allowing the earthly class to be counted as 'domestics'.

the gb can now totally lord it as kings over the flock in exchange for having "dignified" them by including them as domestics.
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Ultimately it is the child who should stop the abuse according to the GB!
by life is to short in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on page 171 of the "learn from the great teacher" book published in 2003 it shows a picture of a very cute little girl holding a ragged ann doll.

she is sitting on a chair in her bedroom with her hand out toward a man that is coming toward her.. the paragraphs say "so just as jesus needed protection, you also need to be protected from grown-ups-and even from other children-who may try to have sex with you.

usually, these people will pretend to be your friends.
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What Watchtower Got Wrong with Their Child Molestation Policy
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
in the style of stephen lett, i'm trying to come up with an exhaustive, enumerated list (without his crazy eyebrows, goofy facial expressions, and nutty voice).

what watchtower has gotten wrong isn't just their 2 witness rule.

it goes much deeper into other failures of jw dogma that has allowed this injustice and others to flourish in their organization.
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"NEW" Disfellowshipping Stance?
by integ in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs